| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 450 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Boss-Busters & Sin Hounds Kansas City and Its Star; Contents; Preface; Prologue: A Puritan in River City; Part 1 Baron Bill; Chapter 1. The Daily W.R. Nelson; Chapter 2. City Beautiful; Chapter 3. Progressive Decade; Chapter 4. Insurgents; Part 2 Interregnum; Chapter 5. Bully Pulpits; Chapter 6. Main Street Paper; Part 3 The Sage and the Country Boy; Chapter 7. Changing of the Guard; Chapter 8. Tom's Town; Chapter 9. Voice of Middle America; Chapter 10. Busted Trust; Epilogue: Newspaper of the Future; Endnotes; A Note on Sources; Acknowledgments; Illustration Credits; Index |
| Summary |
"Haskell tells the tale of the Kansas City Star's rise and decline, taking readers into the city room and executive offices of one of the most respected American newspapers. This story includes Kansas City notables as Tom Pendergast, J.C. Nichols, Frank Walsh, William Rockhill Nelson, Henry J. Haskell and Roy A. Roberts"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-427) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| SUBJECT |
Kansas City star (Kansas City, Mo. : 1885) -- History
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Kansas City star (Kansas City, Mo. : 1885) fast |
| Subject |
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007022277 |
| ISBN |
9780826266125 |
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0826266126 |
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